Biochemical investigation of multicorer sediment profile MSM29_439-3

To detect and track the impact of large-scale environmental changes in a the transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine experimentally the factors controlling deep-sea biodiversity, the Alfred- Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) established the deep-sea long-term observatory HAUSGARTEN, which constitutes the first, and until now only open-ocean long-term station in a polar region. Virtually undisturbed sediment samples have been taken using a video-guided multiple corer (MUC) at 13 HAUSGARTEN stations along a bathymetric (1,000 - 4,000 m water depth) and a latitudinal transect in 2,500 m water depth as well as two stations at 230 and 1,200 m water depth within the framework of the KONGHAU project. Various biogenic sediment compounds were analyzed to estimate the input of organic matter from phytodetritus sedimentation, benthic activities (e.g. bacterial exoenzymatic activity), and the total biomass of the smallest sediment-inhabiting organisms (size range: bacteria to meiofauna).

为探测并追踪北大西洋北部与北冰洋中部过渡带内大规模环境变化的影响，并通过实验明确控制深海生物多样性的关键因素，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳极地与海洋研究所（Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, AWI）建立了深海长期观测站HAUSGARTEN——该站点是极地地区首个且迄今唯一的远洋长期观测站。依托KONGHAU项目框架，研究团队沿水深梯度为1000~4000米的水深断面，以及水深2500米的纬向断面，在13个HAUSGARTEN站位布设采样点，另在230米与1200米水深站位各设置1个采样点，并采用视频引导式多管采样器（video-guided multiple corer, MUC）采集近乎未受扰动的沉积物样品。研究人员对多种生物成因沉积物组分开展分析，以估算浮游植物碎屑沉降、底栖生物活动（如细菌胞外酶活性）输入的有机质通量，以及栖息于沉积物中的最小体型生物（尺寸范围：细菌至小型底栖动物（meiofauna））的总生物量。